ACTIVELY LOVE

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

I made another new friend this week.  He works for our Ohio Governor.  He is in the “faith office” of the Governor.

Now I know what you are thinking.  “There is a faith office”?

Yes. It is true.

Conrad stopped down so I could share with him our work at AHOP FREEDOM CHURCH and its affiliates (JEREMIAH TREE, SKBOH, AND FREEDOM RECOVERY).
But as we talked our conversation quickly moved to “THE NEED”.

From February 13-17 (5) folks died from heroin laced with horse tranquilizer in Springfield.  I lost a dear FREEDOMER to the same combination.

One of my recent FREEDOM girls, a treatment candidate who was released from jail so she could enter one of our treatment partners, was pronounced dead from an overdose on the 17^th because she detoured to use “one more time”.

As a State, (8) are dying daily to overdoses from opiates alone.

The dealers are ruthless. The drugs are impure, laced with all sorts of things to improve the kick, to keep the addicted, addicted.

A dear “FREEDOMER and AHOPPER” has a bed and hope waiting for him in Hamilton yet continues to run and hide from the help.

Today’s DISPATCH is a simple request for prayer and action! I normally don't get overly preachy with this little daily forum, but today, I am moved to encourage, implore, and hopefully motivate!

 

My friends it is time to put down denominations and silo affiliations and wade into the mess!  

 

People are dying! I was interviewed by a magazine in Colorado yesterday. My interviewer's best friend's son, a 19 year old, is dead from heroin.  The NEED for action and intervention is everywhere.

We have the ANTIDOTE! It is JESUS!

We have FREEDOM to SHARE! It is JESUS!

We have an ANSWER for these ANSWERLESS QUESTIONS our bound friends are facing! It is Jesus!

The time for apathy is over.

The time for “sitting in the pew and ignoring the problems are over.” Governor Kasich via Conrad

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. - Karl A. Menninger

We need to start ACTIVELY loving.

We do. I receive 3-7 calls a day from parents, spouses, addicted friends, and new seekers of help. They are desperate.  They are in DARKNESS.

They NEED wise, CHRIST FOLLOWING folks to help them discover the "LIGHT OF THE WORLD"!

So today, as we head into another weekend, pause and pray for the addicted, the bound and the confounded.  

Pray for workers to come along side those joined in the battle.Yes. the problem is GREAT but our GOD is greater!

Job 37:5 ESV

…he (GOD) does great things that we cannot comprehend.

Psalm 147:3 ESV

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

But we need to ACT!

Christ has no body but yours,

No hands, no feet on earth but yours,

Yours are the eyes with which he looks

Compassion on this world,

Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,

Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.

Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,

Yours are the eyes, you are his body.

Christ has no body now but yours,

No hands, no feet on earth but yours,

Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours. - Teresa of Avila

 

Will you ACTIVELY LOVE today?

I love you all!

Have a BLESSED WEEKEND!

Freedom Church